So, is that little burden on people's way to escape from famine wealth? Are the broken cotton-padded jackets tied by thousands of servants with straw ropes on the construction site wealth? Is a kennel built by farmers with nothing but walls and roofs a treasure?
Definitely not. Therefore, this sum must have a standard. In my opinion, wealth should be the sum of the rest of the property except meeting the necessary daily consumption, or the sum of the property of that scale where daily consumption can be ignored.
In this way, the vast majority of farmers have no wealth, and many urban poor people have no wealth. Some city people have ancestral homes, so if they sell them, they will have no hiding place, and if they don't sell them, they will have no food. Such people also have no wealth. Many people have hundreds of thousands of debts in order to buy a place to live in the city, and they can only use the sweat of the next few decades to fill this big vacancy for them. Can their house be regarded as wealth?
From this perspective, most of us, like me, have no wealth.
Tao Yuanming said in "Gui Xi Ci" that "wealth is not my wish, and the hometown of emperors cannot be expected". At that time, I always felt a sour feeling of grapes. What people always talk about often shows what they care about, whether it is negative or positive. Those who say they don't care about wealth, like those who say they like wealth, have revealed the influence and even temptation of wealth on them. Tao Yuanming emphasized the charm of seclusion countless times in his poems, and even outlined an illusory paradise. In fact, it reflects his concern for the outside world and his dissatisfaction with the current wealth distribution system from another side. However, he needs to seek wealth at the expense of personal freedom and life dignity, so he has to resist the yearning and pursuit of wealth, hide in a deserted landscape and find another sustenance.
In fact, everyone yearns for wealth from the bottom of their hearts, and is willing or even eager to have wealth. Because wealth is really important to each of us.
There is a well-known proverb in China: People die for wealth, and birds die for food. Such a simple sentence reveals the dependence of human beings on material property in their basic survival. The maintenance of life and the development of society and individuals all need this material foundation. How many people have died of famine and cold since ancient times? Those are poor people without wealth. So we need to have wealth to ensure our survival and then seek our development.
So, is the human race for wealth just to ensure the basic requirements of food, clothing, housing and transportation? No, sometimes, human beings just want to show their social status and the degree and level that they deserve respect from others through the wealth.
Because human wealth and dignity are basically the same.
Since the division of labor appeared in society, the distribution of human property no longer depends on how much he is directly engaged in production, but on his position in the social distribution system. The wealth of our society is distributed according to the level of dignity. Farmers, workers, professors and deans enjoy different degrees of dignity, so the housing conditions as part of wealth are also different. This also proves that you are rich because of high prices and poor because of low prices. There has never been a slave with a lot of money in the world, and it is impossible to have a servant or maid who spends money like water. The right to wealth is similar to the right to dignity. Of course, this is because we are in a society with unequal distribution of dignity, and the distribution of wealth will naturally be unequal.
That's why people spare no effort. Only by reaching a higher level of dignity can we have more wealth. People also need wealth to show their dignity and social status.
Does wealth gain meaning by satisfying people's living needs and reflecting people's social status?
After becoming a rich man, Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, and his wife founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest charitable foundation in the world, and set up various public welfare undertakings to help people in Qian Qian who absolutely need help. In the activities of the rich to control their wealth, one must invest in public welfare undertakings. What is the reason?
Part of human wealth is earned by wisdom, and some people's wealth is born by or by power. Of course, some wealth can be obtained by other unknown means. But no matter what the source of wealth is, as long as it is used for public welfare and healing the wounded and dying, there will soon be some kind of compassionate and noble temperament.
As a result, wealth is dominated by its owners, which embodies another function-to enable wealth owners to establish merits, so that they are widely admired and spiritually sublimated.
Of course, not all people with wealth can do this. Creating wealth requires diligence, acquiring wealth requires opportunity, accumulating wealth requires wisdom, owning wealth requires corresponding power, and successfully controlling wealth requires excellent mind and morality.
Successful wealth owners establish the first merit by creating wealth and the second merit by successfully controlling wealth. As I said before, the distribution of social wealth is based on the level of dignity, and we are unable to change the rules of this game, whether it is poor or rich. Then, we might as well advocate the spirit of helping the poor, let our powerful rich people move and contribute to our public welfare undertakings, so that those in urgent need can get the most affordable help, and at the same time give our wealth owners a chance to successfully control their wealth and achieve transcendence.
From this perspective, how important wealth is to mankind. Therefore, many people equate wealth with life and the ultimate value of life, and lose their spirit in wealth, and take "people die for money" as their motto, which cannot but arouse our sigh.
Although there are many things in the world that we can't get rid of, just like wealth, it is not worth taking it as a value goal. In our society, most people, like me, do not have wealth. We have been fighting for wealth, but we must not fall into the maze of wealth, let alone be desperate for wealth. Wealth, in the final analysis, is actually just a tool for us-a tool to meet our survival needs, a tool to reflect our social status and dignity, and a tool to establish social merits for us.